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The Tastemakers

Introduction SIR ANISH KAPOOR Sculptor, 64 Known for his big, brazen sculptures, the - winning sculptor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. An Indian Jew with an Iraqi mother, he has said he often feels like an outsider, yet he remains a national treasure, receiving a knighthood in 2013. His 114.5-metre-high sculpture Orbit, created for the 2012 Olympic Games, remains Britain’s largest piece of public art.

CONRAD SHAWCROSS Sulptor, 41 The youngest living member of the , Conrad Shawcross is a British artist specialising in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Crafting pieces that explore subjects lying on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, he first came to prominence with his 2004 piece The Nervous System, a large, symmetrical, working loom exhibited in the that produced 20,000 metres of double-helix coloured rope in a single week.

WOLFGANG TILLMANS Photographer, 49 The first photographer ­— and the first non-British person — to be awarded the Turner Prize, Wolfgang Tillmans emerged in the 1990s with his stark snapshot documentations of youths, clubs and LGBTQ culture. Since then his practice has expanded to include diaristic photography, large-scale abstraction and commissioned magazine work. His latest photo book What is Different? explores the concept of post-truth and how people deny or skew facts to WORDS support their beliefs. How timely. Bios by Will Moffitt JB: Joseph Bullmore LIAM GILLICK Conceptual artist, 54 JW: Jonathan Wells RS: Russell Sheldrake An original member of the so-called , Gillick is associated with a group of artists who pioneered the field of relational aesthetics. Gillick PHOTOGRAPHY has worked in a range of mediums, from sculpture James Harvey Kelly and writing to film and music, making him hard to pin down. One thing all his pieces investigate is how the manufactured world carries traces of social, political and economic systems. SEE A CURATOR as a catalyst, generator and motivator,” IDRIS KHAN Photographer, 39 says Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director at the Serpentine Gallery and one of our tastemakers for 2018. He puts it far Specialising in photomechanical reproduction, Khan I could be called a ‘painter of photography’. His technique better than I could, so I’d quite like to pinch the sentiment. of overlapping layers of photographs and unusual source Our collection of the 50 most influential people in London’s material - every page of the Quran, every Beethoven world of art and design is, in a way, its own small curation — a sonata - turns still images into dynamic works that collapse periods of time into single moments. A revered gallery of the figures who define the culture and talking points figure, Khan received an OBE in 2017. of the greatest city in the world. Putting it together has given us some sympathy for the Conceptual artist, 52 gallerists, curators and collectors contained inside. Any finite A conceptual, video and installation artist, Deller is list is destined to leave out some very eligible candidates, a Turner Prize-winning artist who is well-known for especially in a city spilling over with as much talent as London, his large-scale collaborative projects that focus on formative moments in British history. His best-known and there are some names that we were particularly sad work, The Battle of Orgreave, curated in 2001, brought to omit. Unlike The Sunday Times Rich List, say, there’s no together 1,000 people for a public re-enactment of tangible metric for inclusion here. Taste and influence are this violent confrontation from the 1984 miners’ strike. highly subjective, but taste and influence in the world of art Gallerist, 74 are something else entirely. The Tastemakers 2018 mingles youth with experience and The man who made the Young British Artists rich and famous, Saatchi shot to fame through the advertising establishment players with rogues and dissidents — it’s a fair agency he started with his brother Maurice in 1970. cross section, perhaps, of London’s creative scene-at-large. Sixteen years later it was the largest ad agency in the Taken as a whole, though, I’m happy to say it paints a picture world and Saatchi’s art collection a multi-million dollar treasure trove. His penchant for modern work found of an artistic city in rude health. To borrow Obrist’s words, we its expression in and , who hope that it generates and motivates a little conversation. JB Saatchi thrust into the global spotlight in the 1990s. » THOMAS HEATHERWICK Architect, 48 Described by Terence Conran as the “Leonardo da Lawrence Van Hagen Vinci of our times”, Heatherwick is one of Britain’s most sought-after designers, known for creating Gallerist bold, attention-grabbing pieces such as the 2012 Olympic cauldron. With its self-proclaimed team of “180 problem-solvers”, Heatherwick’s King’s Cross studio remains a magical and mysterious place, churning out 170 projects over a prolific 24 year period.

JASPER CONRAN Fashion designer, 58 Son of the acclaimed designer and restaurateur Terence, Jasper Conran is one of the UK’s leading AWRENCE VAN HAGEN fell into the art world almost fashion designers. Conran produced his first womens- wear collection in 1978 and was a founding member by accident. An entrepreneur since he was a teenager, of the London Designer Collections – subsequently the gallerist’s first love is travel. “My nickname was Lolo, renamed London Fashion Week – where he contin- L ues to show today. He has since diversified from so I started a travel-booking service called Lolo Travel — the womenswear into menswear, fragrance, accessories, tag line was, ‘How low can you go?’” he remembers. “I would eyewear, luggage, home collections, interiors and book the travel arrangements for my friends’ parents. I still the performing arts. He received an OBE in 2008 for get geeky over plane seats.” his services to retail. He certainly spent enough time in them. “I worked five summers in a row in China when I was still at school,” he says. SEBASTIAN COX Furniture designer, 31 “I shadowed the managing director of Louis Vuitton when I With a philosophy based on honesty and simplicity, Cox has risen from humble beginnings in a Lincolnshire was 13 and went back to China every year after that.” stable to forge an award-winning furniture brand. Following a computer-science degree at UCL, Van Hagen Producing cabinets, tables and bespoke projects dreamed of setting up a travel tech company. To raise the nec- with a focus on sustainable British hardwoods and coppiced timbers, Cox has won numerous awards essary funds, he decided to put on an art show. “My mother and even had his pieces exhibited at the V&A. has always been involved in the art world and as a child at birthdays and Christmas I would ask for paintings instead of MARC NEWSON Designer, 54 other presents,” he says. “And many of my friends would ask For many Newson is the most influential designer of me what artists to buy, so it seemed natural to me.” his generation. He is the co-designer of the Apple The inaugural show, What’s Up, in Soho in 2016, had an Watch and has created everything from furniture, household objects and bicycles to cars, private 85 per cent sell through rate — formidable for any exhibitor, and commercial aircraft and yachts. In April 2015 his let alone a first-timer. “The idea was based on the notion of Lockheed Lounge chair sold at auction for £2.4m, what’s up on walls today, who are the artists to look out for making it the most expensive object ever sold by a living designer. right now,” he says. “And suddenly I realised, ‘Damn, I really love what I’m doing.’” JAMES WATERWORTH Interior designer Since then, Van Hagen has become something of an unof- Since starting his career at Martin Brudnizki Design ficial counsel for first-time art buyers of any age. I suspect Studio, one of the world’s leading hospitality firms, some of that success comes down to his singular demeanour. Waterworth has established himself as one of Britain’s On the sunny roof terrace at 5 Hertford Street, in an Italian most renowned interior designers. After overseeing the ambitious design of Soho Beach in Miami, he charcoal double-breasted suit, the 25-year-old bounces with returned to London to establish Alexander Waterworth an infectious energy and a near-omnivorous knowledge of the Interiors with his business partner Alexander Evangelou. contemporary art scene. In 2011 they became the youngest group to be featured in House & Garden’s Top 100 Designers. “I put on an average 40 to 50 artists per show and I believe in every single one of them. I don’t only put up market artists, ROSE UNIACKE Interior designer, 54 either.” To Van Hagen, transparency is key. “Sometimes I tell The interior designer behind the Beckhams’ Holland my clients, ‘This is a really beautiful painting. I don’t think it’ll Park mansion and Jo Malone’s 18-century London be worth 10 times the price next year, but I absolutely love it.’” townhouse, Uniacke is renowned for her serene but Van Hagen also makes a point of meeting every artist he sophisticated interiors. Dubbed the Queen of Serene by The Sunday Times, Uniacke won the Andrew Martin exhibits. “The art is only part of the story. You need to know Interior Designer of the Year Award - often described where it came from,” he says. “And you need to think about as the Oscar of the interior-design world - in 2013. where it’s going. I’m very careful where I place these artists — you can ruin an artist’s career if you sell to the wrong person.” MATTHEW ELTON Furniture designer As for the future, Van Hagen’s outlook is as international Elton has produced bespoke furniture for the likes of as you’d hope. “I feel that the market in Asia has only been Zaha Hadid and Alexander Wang. In 2014 his talent was spotted by Heal’s, which featured his A-frame tapped to 1 or 2 per cent of its potential,” he says. “I’m looking furniture range as part of the Ambrose collection, at places such as Korea — I’d love to grow What’s Up over there. a line of furniture adaptable to every angle of the “What’s great about what I do is that my work is my passion home. From his 3,500 sq ft studio in Hackney Wick he continues to work for a variety of clients, producing and I do it on a daily basis. Life is pretty straightforward when elegant but functional designs for the modern home that’s the case.” JB that attract a fiercely loyal following.»

TASTEMAKERS 139 DAVID LINLEY Furniture designer, 56 Linley is the second Earl of Snowdon, 19th in line to the throne and is the former chairman of Christie’s Christopher Le Brun UK so he is not short of connections. He’s not short of talent either, founding his eponymous furniture Painter and president of the RA business in 1985 above a chip shop in Dorking and turning it into an icon of British design. With its inventiveness, eccentricity and charm, his work con- tinues to exhibit good old-fashioned British values.

TRACEY EMIN Contemporary artist, 54 Once the enfant terrible of British art and now a Royal Academician, Emin shot to fame through her visceral confessional pieces. Her 1999 autobiographical piece garnered her a Turner Prize nomination and an intensely polarised public reaction. Emin has recently become something of a darling of the British establishment, being awarded a CBE in 2013. In 2014 My Bed sold for a little over £2.5 million at Christie’s.

DAVID SHRIGLEY Visual artist, 49 Always witty and always trenchant, Shrigley’s week- end sketches have brought humour and clarity F YOU ASKED MY MOTHER how I got into art she would to kitchens and living rooms around the land for say I was always the child running around with a handful many years. But he’s a man of many talents, having of pencils,” says Christopher Le Brun. The president directed a music video for Blur, designed a mascot I for the Scottish football team Partick Thistle and of the Royal Academy of the Arts has scarcely dropped the hosted pop-up tattoo stations. His new book, Fully pencils since. After training at the Slade and Chelsea College Coherent Plan for a New and Better Society, is out of Arts, Le Brun went on to show his avant-garde paintings in now. Unsurprisingly, it’s very dark and very funny. solo shows around the world to critical acclaim. Since then HANNAH BARRY Gallerist, 34 he has encouraged several generations to pick up a pencil, a paintbrush — or a chisel. A leading light of the contemporary art scene in London, Barry has been opening people’s eyes to a Today Le Brun is a man who has to wear many hats: pres- new wave of talented British artists for more than a ident of the RA, fundraiser, gallery curator, artist, husband, decade. Alongside her eponymous commercial gal- father. One or two of these would be enough for most of us, lery she has been instrumental in the running of Bold Tendencies, a charity focused on bringing exciting but Le Brun seems to thrive at the centre of this clustered art commissions and education to the public. The Venn diagram. “I’ll spend three days a week here [at the RA] non-profit organisation deliver stand-out exhibitions, wearing a suit and being professional, three days a week in orchestral music, opera and architecture, all from a multi-storey car park in Peckham. my jeans in my studio being an artist and one day at home being a husband.” Through it all, Le Brun spins these plates GAVIN BROWN Gallerist with the ease that comes from being truly comfortable with The bearded ex-bad boy of British art, Brown worked one’s station in life. as an assistant to Damien Hirst before moving to I ask Le Brun how it felt to be made president of the RA New York in 1988. He began organising exhibitions at the age of 59. “The Chinese say that when you turn 60 you and pop-ups at Hotel Chelsea. He opened his first gallery in Soho in 1994 and soon was launching the are reborn,” he says. “In fact, the responsibility of the job illustrious careers of Peter Doig, Steve Pippin and and privilege of the job didn’t weight down on me. It had the . Nowadays he refuses to sell out, constantly opposite effect.” Indeed, Le Brun has accomplished a great deal pushing the boundaries of what a gallery can be. since taking on the role in 2011, most recently collaborating

SADIE COLES Gallerist, 55 with architect and Royal Academician Sir David Chipperfield to design the new link between the RA’s two buildings. This The punk art dealer has been at the forefront of Brit art since opening her breakthrough West End gal- “new Burlington Arcade”, as Le Brun describes it, gives the lery in 1997. After spending six years working at the public a fresh route from Piccadilly to Burlington Gardens. prestigious d’Offay gallery, working with the likes of But his work is not yet done. The painter’s next job is to and Jasper Johns, her decision to go solo has paid off in spades, as Sadie Coles HQ continues ensure the RA remains financially sustainable. “The Royal to display and inspire artists from around the world. Academy receives no public money at all and so all capital has to come from donations, fundraising and ticket sales,” IWAN WIRTH Gallerist, 48 he says. The RA celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. Forget Paris, London or New York, Somerset is the It is a poignant moment in the institution’s history, not least place to go for high-class artistic flair. From their as spending on the arts continues to slope downwards. The sleepy farm in Somerset, the art world’s most powerful couple, Iwan and Manuela Wirth, are still pulling the priority for Le Brun, however, is to maintain the Academy’s strings in the world of high-class art dealing. Topping reputation for unimpeachable excellence for at least another the 2017 annual ArtReview’s Power 100 list - whose 250 years. “I would like to make it a place inhospitable to the former winners include Sir and Ai Weiwei - the Wirths have become the envy of the second rate,” he tells me. “Sounds rather ruthless of me. But I think global art industry. » that’s the way artists think — the way the best artists think.” RS

140 TASTEMAKERS JAY JOPLING Art dealer, 54 Henry Highley Claiming a coveted place in GQ’s 50 best-dressed British men of 2015, Jopling is a man of serious style Auctioneer and presence. He’s also one of the most influential art dealers in the world. He spotted the enormous potential of several Young British Artists in the 1990s and turned them swiftly into household names. In 1993, Jopling opened his gallery in Mayfair, thrusting Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin into the public eye before rapidly expanding into Bermondsey, Hong Kong and São Paulo.

HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Art curator, 49 Dubbed the “curator who never sleeps”, artistic director at the and co-editor of the Cahiers UCTIONEERS DON’T SEEM to be born so much as d’Art, Obrist remains a revered figure in the global art made — perfect specimens, crafted in some ornate world. He began his career by hosting his first exhibition laboratory,to emerge slick and charming at the age at the age of 23 in the kitchen of his student flat. Since A then he has curated countless exhibitions, lectured of 50, with sonorous voices and a bonhomie built in. around the world and twice ranked number one in the Henry Highley, however, the most exciting young star in ArtReview’s annual list of 100 most powerful people. the auction world’s firmament, defies that conception. Yes, A self-confessed workaholic, he created the Brutally Early Club in 2006, organising meetings in cafés across there’s the charm, the easy manner, the resonant yet calming the city for people comfortable discussing art and voice, the omnivorous curiosity. But Highley is a bright young quasi-philosophical ideas before 7am. thing in every sense. At just 32, he is quickly rising up the auc- tion world’s ladder and has already installed himself as a key YANA PEEL Gallerist, 44 player in Phillips’s modernisation of the artistic landscape. Justin Trudeau’s former classmate has been CEO of Highley began his career at Phillips in 2008 after studying the Serpentine Galleries since 2016, overseeing the funding and day-to-day running of one of London’s history of art at university. “At the time I remember thinking most famous contemporary art spaces. A deal-maker auctioneering was exciting, but I had no idea if it was something and a disruptor, she succeeded Julia Peyton-Jones I’d be comfortable doing or not,” says Highley. who had been in charge of the gallery for 25 years. “I’ve had the same trainer since I’ve begun,” he says. “I NICHOLAS SEROTA Gallerist, 72 remember a hot sweaty summer in New York and turning up on my first day and being really nervous.” There followed During his 29-year reign, Serota has done more to change the way this country sees art than anyone a crash course in the numerical side of things. “The different else. Arriving at the Tate in 1988 as director of gal- kind of methods of being on the right footing, landing on the leries and museums, Serota transformed this faintly right bids, taking bids, splitting bids,” Highley remembers. parochial museum into one of the most powerful forces in the international art world. It took all of his “After that, it’s really about tweaking tiny bits of your profound business acumen to cobble together the mannerisms. It gets pretty deep. You get your personality £135m to transform a Bankside power station into rejigged a little bit. I think of it as a bit like having a life coach.” the cool bastion of contemporary art it is today. Stepping down as director of the Tate in 2017 he is I ask Highley what he’s most excited about in the current now chair of Arts Council England and is still exerting art world. “There’s a pocket of African American artists right a profound influence over British and international art. now that are generating a lot of interest. There’s an artist called Mark Bradford that I’m quite close to. Phillips first NICHOLAS COLERIDGE Publisher, 61 brought him to auction and we were offering these works at Just like his famous forebear the poet and philoso- lower levels. Now the auction record is $12m.” pher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Coleridge has made a lasting impression on the world of arts With returns like that, it’s no wonder that a new generation and letters. A doyen of good taste, Coleridge's chief is looking to contemporary art as an investment opportunity. area of influence has long been publishing — he has “My advice in that respect would be to buy something you are been a compelling and charming advocate for the magazine world during a particularly perilous couple passionate about and don’t worry about art as an asset class to of decades, and has written several acclaimed and begin with,” says Highley. “Educate yourself and follow your telling novels about the upper echelons of society. gut and in my experience that tends to work out for the best.” Now chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum as well as Condé Nast Britain, Coleridge's infectious Clearly, Highley is excited about the art world’s new-found laugh and gregarious manner will echo around the openness and about a new generation engaging seriously with corridors of power for many decades to come. the market. “People are doing sales through social media, which is remarkable, and online-only auctions — eBay style — are very HELENA NEWMAN Auctioneer, 51 effective at the lower end of things,” he says. “But I don’t think As chairwoman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern anything can replace the true excitement of a live auction.” Art department, Europe, Newman holds one of the most prestigious jobs in the commercial art world. “The great thing for younger collectors now is all these It was she who persuaded Dresdner Bank to sell things are so much more accessible and information is so Giacometti’s iconic Walking Man I in February 2010, much more readily available,” he explains. “I like that young an audacious move in a stagnant market that hadn’t seen or sold a Giacometti sculpture for decades. It art lovers and art buyers can walk into a gallery or an auction eventually sold for $104.3m in the most successful and think, ‘I feel at home here.’ That’s very exciting for me.” JB auction ever held in Europe. »

TASTEMAKERS 143 CHRISTOPHER TURNER Curator Head of design, architecture and digital collections Luke Edward Hall at the V&A, Turner is responsible for the Rapid Response Gallery, a section that curates objects Artist and designer from the present to preserve them for historical analysis. Recent acquisitions include the flag of the Refugee Olympic Team and the Pussyhat worn on the Washington Women’s March. Turner was appointed in July 2017 and it’s clear he’s not afraid of radical ideas. His 2012 book Adventures in the Orgasmatron is a witty analysis of the work of Wilhelm Reich, the man who believed the orgasm could change the world.

MARIA BALSHAW Gallerist, 48 Balshaw was appointed director of the Tate in January 2017 and is the first female director in the gallery’s 120-year history. A pivotal figure in Manchester’s UKE EDWARD HALL WAS ONCE described by Vogue cultural renaissance, overseeing a £15m redevel- as a “wunderkind”, which makes him sounds terribly opment of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Balshaw has spoken of the need for the Tate and art in general L modern. But, in many ways, the young artist is of another to speak to the whole of society. Unsurprisingly, the era entirely. Luke’s enduring appeal is his remarkable marriage first exhibition to open under her tenure focused on of the contemporary with the wonderfully anachronistic. His what it meant to be a black artist in the US during the civil rights era. Seated at the helm of one of the work is peppered with references to the authors of the 1920s art world’s most coveted jobs, Balshaw clearly has and 1930s; it’s a world of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies and his a rich and progressive vision for the Tate’s future. bright young things with dashes of Jazz Age colour and splashes of Martini and Dubonnet. His distinctive, semi-scrawled JUSSI PYLKKÄNEN Auctioneer, 55 handwriting recalls a time when people wrote letters (or at Global president of Christie’s, Pylkkänen is the suave the very least still penned desperate notes in the heat of some Finnish-born, English-educated maestro of the interna- tional art world. He has overseen some colossal sales young summer love) and has adorned dozens of London’s in his tenure, one of these being Leonardo da Vinci’s oofiest invitations and event posters in recent years. If you Salvator Mundi, sold under the hammer for $400m to bring up Vogue’s wunderkind epithet with Hall, however, he become the most expensive painting ever bought. In an interview with he compared the role will suddenly turn bashful and admit that it was something of the auctioneer to that of a conductor, a role that he never asked for, though “it’s still very nice of them”. only works if the orchestra is happy to play along. So Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2012, far his musicians are playing to his tune beautifully. Hall has become something of a barometer of good taste in STEFAN RATIBOR Gallerist London. He is an interior designer and furniture sourcer extraordinaire at households up and down the country and Alongside Mark Francis and Robin Vousden, Austrian prince Stefan Ratibor is one of three Gagosian directors has curated campaigns with Burberry, Bicester Village and in London. They display the world’s biggest artists, the Parker Palm Springs hotel in Los Angeles. living and dead, in some of the most beautiful gallery His advice on design is pretty simple: “Don’t be afraid of spaces in London. His partner Kadee Robbins is also the director of the much renowned Michael Werner colour.” There is nothing wrong, for example, with having Gallery in Mayfair, making them one of the London pink walls and leopard-print carpet. After all, if you get tired art world’s most powerful couples. of such an outlandish colourway, “you can always just paint over it”. In this brave new world, you might change your RALPH RUGOFF Curator, 61 surroundings as often as you change outfits. Rugoff is the visionary director of London’s Hayward Still, there are simpler ways to add excitement to a home. Gallery. Leading the Hayward for more than a decade, his intriguing and ambitious shows have focused on “Lampshades, cushions, small things can introduce colour into a diverse range of themes, from light and outsider art a space,” says Hall. But, really, homes are small fry. “What I to humour and Brutalist architecture. In January the really want to do is design an entire hotel,” he says. “From all Hayward featured the first major UK retrospective of German photographer Andreas Gursky. An exhibition the interiors to the menus and everything. Create an entire of vast images that played with reality, the show was experience.” Hall seems to have an ideal in his mind of the widely lauded by fans and critics alike. perfect hotel — a small, quiet, family-run retreat, most likely in the Italian countryside. In fact, Hall’s latest work is some- STEFAN KALMÁR Gallerist thing of a mood board for what may follow. Known as a radical and a freethinker, Kalmár was Hotel Majestic was unveiled in June at Alex Eagle Studio appointed director of the ICA in 2016. Founded by a group of anti-establishment artists in 1947, the in Soho. It’s a neat distillation of everything that has made ICA has always been a place for fresh, bold ideas, Hall so popular — a semi-fictional take on the 1920s that famously putting on pop-art and punk exhibitions. imagines the adventure of a particularly smart set across Kalmár has said that “the ICA’s outspoken voice is needed more than ever” and that he wants the ICA various Riviera retreats, dotted with the Hellenic profiles and to be “one of the most progressive organisations handsome characters for which Hall has become famous. It for the 21st century.” One of the first things he did is, in the words of the wunderkind, “an ode to the romance as director? Install a cafe open until 2am, because — as we all know — the best ideas happen over of travel and the magical joy of discovering new places with drinks at midnight. » someone you love”. RS

144 TASTEMAKERS 145 Sebastian Errazuriz NICHOLAS CULLINAN Gallerist, 41 The dapper director of the National Portrait Gallery is Artist the man who co-curated the most successful exhibition in ’s history, a series of Matisse’s cut-outs that attracted more than 500,000 visitors. Now he has grand plans for one of Britain’s most beloved galleries, announcing a new £35.5m building project that he hopes to open in 2022. He has started his new role assuredly, curating exciting and original shows dedicated to the contemporary artist Gillian HERE COMES A POINT IN ANY conversation with Wearing and the Surrealist performer, Claude Cahun. an artist when it becomes startlingly clear that you’re T talking to someone who’s on a different creative plane TIM MARLOW Artistic director, 55 entirely. In my meeting with Sebastian Errazuriz, it happened Writer, broadcaster and art historian Tim Marlow when he handed me the penises. is best known for dynamic Channel 5 documenta- The artist and designer, softly spoken and fresh off a ries, but his day job is artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts. Displaying the work of Matisse, Dalí, flight from New York, went on to explain that these small Duchamp and Jasper Johns, Marlow’s RA remains a stone “paperweights” had been created as a comment on the gem of the British art world, and it’s clear he puts centuries of statues subjected to dismemberment. the same enthusiasm into his role as he does making “They’re super fun,” he says. “Most of these statues were documentaries. built as homages to male prowess, so without the penis, they’re CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH hilarious. Then to recreate them and offer them as mundane Cultural historian, 64 paperweights? Even funnier.” Thirteen portraits of reside Errazuriz, who was born in Chile and studied in New York, in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, a fitting is about to open his new show, Anything You Destroy, We Will testament to the man who made the place cool again. Taking over as director in 1994, Saumarez Smith Rebuild, at David Gill Gallery in London. The paperweights revitalised the NPG, turning it into a place that could may seem strange, but Errazuriz’s back catalogue offers host both Turner and Testino. A cultural historian similar surprises. specialising in history of art, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of painting, design and architecture, and The artist has created everything from experimental he knows how to throw a good party too. furniture and women’s shoes to motorcycles in his pursuit of conversation-starting. Everything is a canvas for the 41-year- ALEX FARQUHARSON Gallerist, 49 old. Everything and, he adds, nothing. Arriving at a Tate Britain that had low morale and “We’re also starting to develop shows entirely in augmented even lower visitor numbers, Farquharson got the reality,” he reveals, “where people will just be walking around gallery buzzing again with an immensely successful retrospective of the much-loved an empty gallery looking at shows on their phones. It’s fun, no?” and a groundbreaking show of Queer British art. It’s an idea, Errazuriz adds, that was born from the pro- Not afraid of challenging the status quo, he drew cess of creating this show. Based in Brooklyn, he oversaw the acclaim for dispensing with the age limit of 50 for the Turner Prize in March 2017 because, as he said, creation of this newest collection — modern, everyday riffs “artists can experience a breakthrough in their work on existing classic sculptures — from more than 3,000 miles at any age”. Bravo. away. How? By using a virtual-reality headset. “We started going through the computer and using a OLIVER BARKER Auctioneer, 46 headset so I could see the pieces as if they were there in my Deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and senior studio, walking around and checking them for issues. international specialist of contemporary art, it was Barker who oversaw the market-defining sale of “To be able to 3D scan these pieces I had seen every week- Damien Hirst’s restaurant Pharmacy. Sold at the end in the as a boy and take them home with height of Cool Britannia, the price of £11m was me and play with them, it’s almost as if I’m stealing.” groundbreaking. Five years later, Barker pulled off the landmark Hirst sale Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, “There are issues of ownership,” says the artist, pre-empting raking in £111.5m, a record for a single-artist sale. my next question. “You’re shining a light on who gets to own Unsurprisingly, the astute auctioneer has continued these pieces. Did I just steal them? Should there be a copyright to enhance his burgeoning reputation, establishing himself as the go-to man for -busting sales of around these pieces?” It’s a valid point. If someone scanned contemporary art. Errazuriz’s pieces into a computer to alter and repurpose them, wouldn’t it anger him? CHEYENNE WESTPHAL Auctioneer, 50 “As long as they added another element, then fine. I think Widely heralded as the most progressive of the art should function like patents for technology and science,” he international auction houses, Phillips is the auctioneer says, playing with the paperweight. “As long as you can prove du jour for the most impoortant contemporary works worldwide. World record sales rely on historical that you’re making an improvement, or adding an element of expertise and commercial nous, and Westphal clearly innovation from the previous work, you should be allowed to has both. Formerly at Christie’s, and now chairman grab somebody else’s pieces.” JW of Phillips, she has presided over sales of Gerhard Richter (Abstraktes Bild, $46.3m) and Sigmar Polke (Jungle, $27.1m) and in July 2015, she oversaw the ‘Anything You Destroy, We Will Rebuild’ runs from 1 June to 4 July at David most successful contemporary art auction in Europe, Gill Gallery, davidgillgallery.com bringing in a record-breaking $203.6m.

TASTEMAKERS 147 CATHERINE WOOD Curator BEN PENTREATH Architect and designer

Instrumental in founding the performance programme Just like English food, English decor is making a at Tate before going on to curate more than 200 live comeback these days and Pentreath is one of the key works, Wood is one of London’s most authoritative men behind this patriotic resurgence. The architect and influential figures in the world of performance and interior designer is the man behind the Duke and art. Organising exhibitions and major commissions, Duchess of Cambridge’s Kensington Palace flat and directing the performance programme and lec- is renowned for his fusion of classical design with turing on performance within art and art history, 1970s-style interiors. Head to his Instagram page to she is clearly a very busy woman and — given the catch a glimpse of his grand architectural creations, boundless possibilities technology is unearthing for one of which is his own Dorset home, a beautifully performance art — will continue to be. renovated parsonage.

DUNCAN CAMPBELL AND CHARLOTTE REY TIM JEFFERIES Gallerist, 56 Design partnership The onetime man about town and owner of Hamiltons Now working with some of the world’s most desirable Gallery in Mayfair, Jefferies is the go-to guy on London’s brands, Campbell-Rey is the barnstorming creative photography scene. He sits on numerous commit- consultancy and design partnership founded by tees for institutions such as the Tate Modern, Paris Duncan Campbell and Charlotte Rey. United by Photo and Pavilion of Art and Design London, and a mutual love for visual storytelling, the pair met has long championed some of the biggest names while working for the biannual culture magazine in photography — Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Acne Paper, and their rich, classical aesthetics have Helmut Newton. A fascinating raconteur and one of landed them clients from Bentley and Bulgari to the most elegantly dressed men in London, Jefferies Baccarat and Coach. From advising top brands to is man very much in the know, and an excellent curating exhibitions and designing chic furniture, it’s one to know. clear that whatever the brief, Campbell-Rey always deliver with style and panache. HENRY WYNDHAM Art advisor, 63 The chairman of Sotheby's Europe for 22 years, and JONNY BURT AND JOE KENNEDY a big player at Christie’s before that, Wyndham has Gallerists, 24 and 24 seen it all. He was at the podium when Giacometti's Starting their first pop-up gallery at the age of 23, L'homme qui marche I sold for $104m, which set the Jonny Burt and Joe Kennedy are the fresh-faced record for the highest amount ever paid at auction entrepreneurial team shaking up the London art for a work of art. Wyndham now works advising scene. The brains behind Unit London, an exciting London’s collectors on sourcing masterpieces new contemporary gallery based in Covent Garden, worldwide with Clore Wyndham. With a warm and the pair have financed the project all by themselves, sonorous voice and an endlessly affable manner, amassing a staggering 216,000 followers on Instagram. the towering figure is a deeply popular figure in Housing a plethora of contemporary artistic talent, London’s art world and beyond. with pieces from Mark Demsteader, Jake Wood- Evans, Ivan Alifan and others, Unit London is almost as cutting-edge and cool as the offbeat duo who founded it. Almost.

GERRY MCGOVERN, Land Rover’s head of design, 62 With his colourful collection of Savile Row suits and a family home in Chelsea, McGovern isn’t a traditional Land Rover type. But his commitment to blending a cool with Land Rover’s beautifully boxy design is paying dividends. Range Rovers are lighter and more durable than ever before, and they’re selling at a rate of knots. The Range Rover Velar has more advanced orders placed for it than any other Land Rover product since the brand began. Just like his beloved vehicles, it seems McGovern is navigating potentially bumpy terrain and bringing Land Rover into the 21st century with purpose, style, efficiency and panache.

ANDREW WINCH Yacht designer With its onus on quality and creativity, Winch Design has enjoyed a cool 32-year cruise through the lucrative world of yacht design. During this time Andrew Winch has crafted vessels for Middle-Eastern princes, US, Indian and Russian billionaires and has since expanded to designing private jets and architecture. If you’ve ever glanced longingly at Roman Abramovich’s Boeing 767 or his Eclipse superyacht then you'll under- stand Winch's singular talents and remarkable eye.

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